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4 Economic Trends Impacting Talent Today

ClearCompany HRM

What to do: If you want to solve the skills gap for your company specifically, start investing in training, goal-setting , performance metrics and learning. Many companies have proprietary systems and processes that require internal training anyway, so why not hire an entry-level person you can mold into the right employee?

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Expert’s Top Tips for Training a Retail Workforce for the Holiday Season

SumTotal

The National Retail Federation (NRF) President and CEO Matthew Shay estimates that retailers will hire 650,000 seasonal workers for the 2018 holiday period, up 10% from 2017. For employers, this volume of new workers presents significant hiring, onboarding and training challenges. I’ve worked in retail for almost 30 years.

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How to legally manage remote employees

Business Management Daily

Remote employees also need training in time-keeping and safety and accident prevention. The Census Bureau’s time use survey concluded that’s the percentage of private-sector employees who teleworked at least some of the time in 2018. Source: Telecommuting Trend Data , GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com 2018. Setting remote work rules.

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State Minimum Wage Increases for 2017 (Map)

HR Daily Advisor

Minimum wage increases will affect numerous states across the country in January 2017. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the current federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, but the FLSA does not supersede any state or local laws that are more favorable to employees. per hour on January 1, 2018.

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More Governments are Encouraging Pay Equity Through Transparency

Trusaic

Effective April 2017, the United Kingdom set a global example on the issue of pay equity by requiring organizations to publish 12-month snapshots online accounting for their gender pay gaps. The pay data reports are publicly accessible online. Examples of this trend can be found domestically and overseas. In 2019, U.S.

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Santa Clara to Raise City Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour by 2019

HRWatchdog

On August 22, the Santa Clara City Council adopted an amendment to the city’s minimum wage ordinance (MWO), changing the MWO’s annual rate increase schedule to reach $15/hour by 2019. Changes will affect employers beginning January 1, 2018. Santa Clara minimum wage to reach $15/Hour by January 1, 2019. What’s New?

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Pay Equity Laws Abroad are Rapidly Evolving. U.S. Employers Should Take Note

Trusaic

Achieving Pay Equity means eliminating unlawful discrimination from the wage-setting process. The rising importance of Pay Equity for employers globally can be attributed to rapidly evolving laws regulating the payment of wages. consider ways to address the gender wage gap. consider ways to address the gender wage gap.